Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Culture and power; 2. The utopian contrast; 3. Dystopian and anti-utopian fiction; 4. Textual politics; 5. Habitualization, defamiliarization, and utopian reading; 6. Reading and the education of discontent; Postscript; References

About the Author

John Storey is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at the Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Sunderland, UK, and Chair Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholar Programme, Shaanxi Normal University, China.